1 August 2007

Northern Ireland and Scotland implement Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre designation programmes

Northern Ireland

NaTHNaC are pleased to announce that they have been commissioned by the Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to provide Northern Ireland health care practitioners with the NaTHNaC Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre (YFVC) registration programme as of 01 August 2007.   

Scotland

Health Protection Scotland (HPS) were commissioned by the Scottish Executive to register YFVCs in December 2006, and in June launched a programme of registration, standards, training and audit modelled on the NaTHNaC programme established in England in 2005 and accepted by the Welsh Assembly in 2006.   Information about their programme and who to contact can be found on the following links http://www.hps.scot.nhs.uk/ewr/article.aspx

By the end of 2007 UK travellers will be readily able to locate a yellow fever vaccination centre throughout the UK with the assurance of a universal standard of care. Professor David Hill, Director of NaTHNaC comments that “we are delighted that the programme we established initially in England has now been widely accepted as the standard across the whole of the UK.”